On Sunday, December 29, 2002, at 02:31 PM, Henri Yandell wrote: > This may not matter to you, but I have this router and while it's been > great for most things, it does not appear to work with Windows XP [at > least with WEP turned on, and who wouldn't]. XP doesn't allow > hexadecimal > WEP keys.
NetGear has ROM updates for some of their routers to work with XP. I have an MR314 -- the predecessor to the MR814 -- and I got around to installing the ROM upgrade just a few days ago, so I imagine the MR814 has also been upgraded in the same way. I don't have an XP machine around, so I can't verify it works. By the way, the MR314 works wonderfully with Apple Airport cards. I originally installed mine in the worst corner of the basement, and I could use it all over the house and in much of the yard. Since moving it to a more central location, I can carry my iBook out across the street and still get a strong signal. The firewall capabilities of these boxes is pretty rudimentary, but enough for most people. It's basically a table where you can fill in which ports you want to open and which machines on the local side should handle requests at that port. The setup is done with your Web browser. The NetGear routers actually have a little more capability than most, but they hide it well because the capabilities aren't in the browser interface; you have to get in using telnet. The documentation for this is hidden on the NetGear Web site. Another nice feature of the NetGear routers is they have a built-in capability to keep a DynDNS dynamic to fixed IP number up to date. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
